Consultants Will Survey Library Needs

January 30, 1986

KISSIMMEE — Library board members got the ball rolling Wednesday on a survey that could lead to a new library system for the county, said chairman Bob Fisk.

Fisk said the Library Advisory Committee, a citizen's advisory group for the Osceola County Commission, recommended at a meeting Wednesday afternoon that the commission accept the low bid of $4,620 for a survey to be done by HBW Associates Inc., a library planning and consulting firm based in Dallas.

The survey would determine what kind of library system is needed, how many branches are required and how much it would cost.

Fisk said once the survey is complete, the board hopes to get a bond issue on November's ballot. If a bond is approved, the county could start work immediately on plans for a new library system.

''We're starting the slow wheels of progress,'' Fisk said. He said the survey would take several months, but that he had no way of guessing when the county might begin work to build a library or libraries, or how much the system might cost.

The county's two public libraries, in Kissimmee and St. Cloud, are a part of the Orange County Library System and are funded by a special millage levied on taxpayers in Orange and Osceola counties.